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In this post, I'll explore the findings made by Microsoft Research, after the unsuccessful launch of Windows Vista in 2007. Microsoft decided to dig deep and figure out what went wrong. Management deemed dangerous
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In this post, I'll explore the findings made by Microsoft Research, after the unsuccessful launch of Windows Vista in 2007. Microsoft decided to dig deep and figure out what went wrong.
Obviously they didn't find anything, looking at the "successful" path they have steered to   
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The failure of vista had nothing to do with bugs -- it worked as designed -- so maybe the guys should have done the job they were assigned to do, rather than investigate quality control.
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Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US senators. Good thing they didn't go with a motto like, "Do no evil" or anything
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0.0.0.0 facebook.com www.facebook.com subdomain1.facebook.com
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Unrealistic deadlines and manual test processes cited as factors that lead to poor software quality, says a new report from software vendor Diffblue. Just in case you weren't noticing
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has it not been always like that? 
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“PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan”  
On a more serious note:
The correct way is...?
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Nelek wrote: The correct way is...?
You wrote
Quote: has it not been always like that?
should be:
Quote: has it not always been like that?
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Now that you tell, it is obvious for me too. The worst is... I do know that rule.
It is just that I continuously switch between 3 languages and 2 dialects and when I am tired and don't pay attention as I should, I end mixing them up, so that I become the far cousin of Yoda (with the allowance of Pete O'Hanlon of course )
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Nelek wrote: has it not been always like that?
Nailed it!!
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Nah! Say it isn't so! 
And every deadline I've seen has been artificially touted as being world-ending and ended-up not being world-ending.
"Oh, well, we were just kidding! We thought you needed the pressure to get it done."
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Woe the developer that complains about software quality, the same developer that when given unlimited time produced unlimited garbage. I laugh in the face of such whining, as the reality is that the better the software quality, the more likely you will meet deadlines, and thus they are realisitic deadlines. Much as developers want to whine about deadlines, the fact of the matter is, most deadlines are unrealistic because the code base never saw the light of "quality" to begin with.
An unrealistic deadline, in my opinion, is simply that there's too much work to be done given the allotted time. Software quality should not suffer if software quality actually exists, and if software quality exists, it's not the driving factor for an unrealistic deadline measure.
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Marc Clifton wrote: same developer that when given unlimited time produced unlimited garbage. I laugh in the face of such whining
Indeed.
Marc Clifton wrote: An unrealistic deadline, in my opinion, is simply that there's too much work to be done given the allotted time
100% agreed. My stance is always to deliver quality and just be late or be on time and not deliver some items.
In my opinion, there's no excuse for poor quality.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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<Devil's Advocate>
At the same time, there are a lot of different opinions on code quality from a lot of different developers, few of them compatible with each other, which are emphatically and loudly declared as absolute necessities.
When managing a software project, it can be extremely difficult to determine who is crying wolf.
</Devil's Advocate>
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Testing is essential but it's secondary. Sorry. But it means I can do twice as much software development!
Maybe if I did some unit tests for my unit tests?
I was going to go with "OK Boomer", but I resemble that remark.
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Where is all the straw coming from for the authors of your various links?
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It's a (infinitely) renewable resource 
TTFN - Kent
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The old-style PC is on its way out. It's being replaced by desktop-as-a-service, cloud-based PCs. Because VT-100 ought to be enough for everyone?
"From my cold, dead fingers"
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Just one word: Bollocks
As there were not enough problems with normal services as a services clouds... eh, adobe?
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Next up, the "new" idea Programming Just Like Legos!
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Boy, can't wait until basic access to my desktop is completely reliant on my network connection...
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Quote: Microsoft is promoting this not just as a Windows desktop alternative, but as a path forward for die-hard Windows 7 users. As Brad Anderson, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 wrote:
"With the end of extended support for Windows 7 coming in January 2020, we also understand some customers need to continue to support Windows 7 legacy applications as they migrate to Windows 10. To support this need, you can use Windows Virtual Desktop to virtualize Windows 7 desktops with free Extended Security Updates (ESU) until January 2023."
I'm going to make a prediction. 3 years from now when ESU ends:
0) Anyone who drank the koolaid is going to discover that whatever legacy crap prevented them from migrating now still will block migration then.
1) MS will do a hard shutdown of their W7 VM program.
2) Getting new local W7 installs up and running will be a cluster-![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) because MS will take down not only their install images but the patching servers needed to get fresh installs up to the OSes final state.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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